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Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster' (www.mirror.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by BobTheBoozer@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

She wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter : “Whoever thought it was funny to parasail over the village, it was in extremely poor taste. Take your twisted hatred somewhere else. There was two parachutes with engines like Hamas used at that festival, gave me a fright. Thought it was some kind of scare tactic or protest.”

The headline doesn't actually describe the article text. She did not say that she thought it was Hamas. She thought that it was some kind of protest. Which may be wrong too, but is not the same thing as believing Hamas is attacking.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still really fucking stupid. That lady needs to go live in a cave and never interact with or have to see people again.

[–] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

She probably doesn't exist, it was all made up by The Mirror to get a good click baity headline. If she does exist, she shouldn't exist in the news because she's dumb as fuck, but that's the state of the media nowadays.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

I think paragliders might possibly predate all the current political ongoings

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Frankly that's even more insane.

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hey man! Facts don’t sell! They don’t move content and they don’t generate clicks.

You and your accuracy are out of place!